Try new egui-video player

[v0l]

I built a new egui-video lib for my zap.stream egui app, just plugged it into gossip and it seems to work well(ish)

I noticed it wasnt enabled by default, what was the reason for that?

Also clippy --fix made a lot of changes so i put those in a separate commit

[mikedilger]

Cool, I'll take a look.

The reason it is not enabled by default is that some machines don't have ffmpeg, or they don't have the shared libraries it depends on, or the wrong versions of those libraries, or not in paths we can easily find.

[mikedilger]

The git history does show a lot of work that my egui-video doesn't have.

But I'm having problems:

[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7839bc69a980] Cannot load libcuda.so.1
[AVHWDeviceContext @ 0x7839bc69a980] Could not dynamically load CUDA

I have an AMD graphics card that probably doesn't support CUDA.

I'm also curious about what "Player::new()" does and when the data gets downloaded, and where is it cached.

[v0l]

But I'm having problems:

Does this cause the player not to load? It should just skip over that and try the AMD accelerated decoding

I'm also curious about what "Player::new()" does and when the data gets downloaded, and where is it cached.

I didnt like that this Player::new() blocked rendering so now it just creates the struct and spins up an std::thread which does all the media loading, in this lib we dont donwload anything until you start play().

I also built a custom HLS demuxer because the built in FFMPEG hls demuxer downloads all variants event though we only play 1 of them, so right now it just plays the highest res version of a stream and ignores the rest, later we will have the auto mode where it picks the best quality based on bandwidth.

I remved the dependency on SDL2 also and im using cpal for audio. On this it seems to have some issues still, A/V sync is quite hard to manage, but i'll continue to improve on this also.

[mikedilger]

But I'm having problems:

Does this cause the player not to load? It should just skip over that and try the AMD accelerated decoding

It shows a black box with a white progress line. But no play button and no video image and pressing near play doesn't do anything.